Marlon James

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3,415 appearances 8 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 8 Sep

Marlon James’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Marlon and Jake Read Dead People · The Most Important Character Isn’t a Character · 18 Aug 2026 podcast

The thing about Dublin though, that it's Lord knows it's not the first novel I've read where the city becomes a character, but I never read one like that one.

And part of it too is that there's just so much mediocrity going on.

I think it's the way, yeah.

Mediocrity is too harsh.

Don't come from me, Irish people.

I know you're already going on Twitter.

Don't come for me.

emails flowing.

I've been banned, especially for a place that likes to take credit for the Jamaican accent.

But I guess it's not mediocrity.

Although there are people who end up in in the book doesn't say mediocrity, the book says paralysis.

Yes.

Yeah.

And I am I am very much interested in, for want of a better phrase, people who are inert. 'Cause I worry about cause I thought that was me for a while.

And uh the first time I read about Dear Dirty Dublin, of course I had a parallel to Kingston.

The very first fiction I ever wrote was a r story for store response to Dubliners.

Setting Kings.

Really?

No, that will it will never be public.

Oh, I I would pay money to read this.

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